Chap. 537.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled an act
to provide for working and keeping in repair the roads and bridges in Nanse-
mond county, approved March 3, 1894.

Approved February 29, 1896.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of an act entitled an act to provide for working and keeping
in repair the roads and bridges in Nansemond county be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 8. The board of supervisors of the county shall levy and appro-
priate for general road purposes under this act the capitation tax of
fifty cents on every male citizen in the county over twenty-one years
of age, as allowed under the constitution, and they shall also levy in
addition to the capitation tax a tax on property, real and personal,
assessed for taxation in the county, to be applied, with said capitation
tax, to the working, keeping in order, and repairing the public roads
and bridges and the compensation of the officers appointed under
this act. Such taxon real and personal property shall not exceed
twenty cents on every one hundred dollars in the value of such prop-
erty, and such tax, together with the capitation tax, shall be col-
lected, accounted for, and applied as road funds under this act, ex-
cept that the taxes collected from each magisterial district shall be
kept separate by the county treasurer; provided that the tax levied
on real and personal property in the town of Suffolk shall be at
such a rate as the council of said town shall request, not to exceed
ten cents on the one hundred dollars of the assesed value of such
property, and that such tax and capitation tax levied in said town
shall be collected by the treasurer of said town and expended under
the direction of said council on the public roads within one mile
from the corporate limits of said town.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.